Stick it all on red. Look for pigs up above during the day and a blue moon at night. For the first time ever, San Marino has won a competitive soccer match.  As I write this, I can preemptively hear...

Ever since former FIFA President Sepp Blatter revealed that the 2022 World Cup would be held in Qatar, Western media channels have unleashed a barrage of criticism aimed at the first Middle Eastern nation...

When FIFA announced that the World Cup, an athletic event with a level of global importance and requisite infrastructure second only to the Olympic games, would be hosted in Qatar in 2022, a wave of confusion...

It’s official. On March 17, FIFA — soccer’s international governing body — confirmed that Video Assistant Refereeing, a system for reviewing decisions by the head referee with video footage, will...

Making a list of corrupt organizations that exploit their workers and the countries in which they operate seems like something that should not be easy in 2015. Yet, it is, and FIFA is at the top of that...

Soccer may just be the next big thing in the United States. You would hardly know it, based on limited media coverage, but United States Soccer arguably just had the best four-week stretch in its history. The...

Cafune. I learned this word in a translation class when I was 17. That day’s lesson was on idioms and phrases that have no exact English equivalents. We learned age-otori, the Japanese way of saying...